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Fast fashion - If you’re asked to name high-emitting industries, one important contributor and very mandatory product might not quickly come to mind: clothing. The fashion industry contributes roughly 10 per cent of all global greenhouse gas emissions because of its energy-intensive production and long-supply chain, according to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Fast fashion, inexpensive clothing produced quickly at a mass-market level, is a particularly guilty culprit.

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Within the textile network PlasTexTron©, Starlinger recycling technology is searching for an ecologically and economically sound solution for the recycling of mixed textile waste of multi-material composition. Three universities and eight Austrian companies are involved in the COIN-project TEX2MAT, which is led by the Plastics Cluster of ecoplus, the business agency of Lower Austria, and funded by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Digital and Economic Affairs (BMDW).

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Union Textile Minister, Smt. Smriti Zubin Irani, joined the foundation stone laying ceremony for the Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP) designed by NITRA at Ajrakhpur, Bhuj (Gujarat) on 18th March 2017.

The 150 KLD CETP project has been assigned to NITRA for implementation by Ministry of Textiles through Handicrafts Mega Cluster Mission (HMCM). NITRA designed a modern treatment scheme integrated with water reclamation for the CETP.

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Inditex, a Spanish multinational clothing company to team up with Lenzing to commit to the circular economy model in all phases of its production. It will be focusing on creating premium textile raw materials from its fabric scraps, initially involving about 500 tons of textile waste.

The collaboration is meant to kick-start a clothing collection campaign as well as a reuse and recycling programme for discarded garments. The aim is to raise this to around 3 000 tons within a few years, said Inditex’s chairman and chief executive Pablo Isla.

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Martex Fiber, a leader in textile waste management provides the highest quality textile waste management services to a wide variety of textile mills in North and Central America and the Caribbean. Martex Fiber as part of its “No Fiber Left Behind” program will go for capacity expansion at its manufacturing facilities.

Martex Fiber apart from fiber reclamation line at its facility in Spartanburg will also be increasing its plant capacity by over 20 percent for fibers made from cotton and cotton/polyester textile waste.

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Martex Fiber, a Charlotte based textile waste trading company since its founding in 1970 has been innovating in the field of textile. Martex Fiber, as part of its expansion plan took up to increase it Spartanburg’s plant capacity by over 20 percent which has been completed.

Spartanburg Fiber Division plant expansion involved installation of a fiber reclamation line that will produce additional value-added fibers for use in automotive, upholstery and yarn applications.